Circuses

The Fascinating Everyday Lives of the Flying Wallendas Explored in The Show Must Go On

Dark Carnival Burlesque: The Valentine Show!

Dances of Vice: New Year’s Eve 2013

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away

THE RINGMASTER

Chekhov goes to the circus

How to Drink Wine While Hula Hooping

Ever considered pouring yourself a glass of wine while hula hooping? Well, it's just one hilarious obstacle after another. Enjoy A Glass of Red, a charming bit from circus performer Annabel Carberry.

STRANGE DREAMS

Sweden's Cirkus Cirkör returns to BAM

MAN ON WIRE

Two exhibits look at Alexander Calder

Hoop-La

THE SPICE OF LIFE

Chefs crank up the heat with chile

Spanish History Meets Insane Clown Posse in The Last Circus

Zarkana Goes Swinging: Willie Geist Reviews Cirque du Soleil

The company's latest extravaganza flies into Radio City Music Hall

Brooklyn Unicyclist Fighting to Ride on Sidewalk, Seriously

​Kyle Peterson, a circus performer in the Big Apple Circus, filed a $3 million lawsuit against the city in le theate 2010, alleging that the two tickets he received for riding on the sidewalk were unjust becaus law prohibits sidewalk rides for any "two-or-three-wheeled device." (A unicycle has ... More >>

Allman Brothers Band

DO THE TWIST

The impossible feats of Circa

UNDEAD AND UNDRESSED

Burlesque show books it

The Cat's Meow

A cabaret double-header

ARIAS'S ARIAS

Drag star goes jazz

PLAY TIME

Bring your own props to 4Play

Eric Michael Gillett

Rebel Yell

Rave meets senior center at this underground bingo party

LIFE IS A CIRCUS

This isn’t Ringling Bros. This is real life.

'Gowanus Jazz Festival'

Project Runway: Scary Clowns, Scarier Stripes

​And so it has come to this. After a season of sequins and spangles and bitchery--oh my!--the last challenge before Project Runway's Bryant Park finale has to be epic, a worthy encapsulation of these ragtag dreamers' weary journey to the white tents and glory beyond. It must be in deference t ... More >>

Circus Porn-icus: Caligula Maximus

La MaMa picks up a dirty-minded extravaganza

Allman Brothers Band

Gemini and Scorpio Present Masquerade Macabre

Spy-Author Claims Monaco's Prince Albert Asked Him to Kill Love Child, Other Weird Scenes

​Robert Eringer says he was His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco's intelligence chief. He further claims that he conducted for the Prince sensitive investigation of VIPs, including Vladimir Putin and a woman who says the Prince kidnapped and raped her on his yacht, per Eringer's fili ... More >>

The Abyss

CALLING ALL CITIZENS

A theater troupe made up of contemporary New Yorkers

Big Apple Circus: Play On!

DANCE—DON’T WALK

March along with this punk-rock carnival

KICKS WITH NICKS

Put on your best Stevie face

Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

The Spiegeltent returns with teak, velvet, and nipple glitter

Positively Not 4th Street

Twyla's dances, they are a-degeneratin'

Peanuts, Popcorn

Carnie Life: Peanuts and Popcorn at Lincoln Center

Dance

Sliding Down, Sticking To, Falling Through . . . and, Yes, Hitting a Wall

Opera in the Air in a DUMBO Basement

Film

Theater

Peanuts, Popcorn

Upcoming

Carnival Ride

Spinning in Infinity

Laughter and Tears

Theater

Merle Haggard’s Dirty Dog

The Wau Wau Sisters Ruffle Some Panties

Tricky Bohos

Road Rules

Teaching the carny set is no sideshow act

Circus Minimus

Jennifer Miller Wows 'Em in the Nabes